Minutes of the Member's Meeting of

LITTLE RIVER AIRPORT PILOTS' ASSOCIATION
a California nonprofit public benefit corporation


A regular meeting of the Directors and Members was held on October 13,
1996, at 2 o'clock P.M. at Coast Flyers meeting room, for the purpose of
transacting all proper business of the corporation.


The meeting was called by the President at the last meeting. Written
notice of this meeting was sent to interested parties. Notice was
publicly posted.


There were present, the following persons:

Joel Bornstein
Tim Scully	
Dick Ahrens	
Dave Brewer	
Michael Moore	
John Merriman	


The minutes of the last meeting were approved as written.


Tim reported on the correspondences of the past month:  

1-The F.A.A. responded to Tim's letter requesting information on a
number of items: curfew, restricting certain kinds of traffic,
consideration of our low ambient noise level, F.A.A. control, timber,
restricting training activities and criminal action in noise abatement
cases. 

2-Sept. 23; Chuck Boyer of the Department of Public Works responded to
our letter about the GPS approach.  They need better explanation of what
the proposed approaches would be like. He has requested a cost analysis
>from Risk Management and will inform us of their answer.  On Oct. 2
Chuck wrote to report that Risk Management said there will be no
additional costs due to the approach.

3-Another letter from D.P.W. stated that: (1) Andy declined to follow up
on the offer for him to be allowed to open a maintenance facility on the
field. (2) It has always been County policy to allow emergency repairs
to be performed by any qualified mechanic, without the required written
permission of the County.  It is recommended that the Airport Supervisor
be informed when work commences.

Michael suggested a letter to the D.P.W. stating: (1) We are in contact
with the F.A.A.  They are willing to design the approach.  (2) They will
supply charts of the proposed approach(es) for our review.  
(3) We need the County to write the F.A.A. for them to move ahead with
the proposed approach.  
Tim said that the F.A.A. wants: (1) To know how we will get the
altimeter setting and (2) A statement of negative environmental impact. 

Dick suggested a letter to the County describing the expected approach
procedure, explaining that there will be no "back course".  There will
be straight in approaches only.


Noise abatement:

A problem we perceive is related to Dan Lundgren's opinion that noise
complaints received and recorded must become part of the permanent
record on the deed.  When the property is offered for sale, it must be
disclosed that there is a possible defect related to the noise.  The
complainers see this as "blackmail", to be used against them.  The
residents oppose any "list" of complainers.  

Tim said there are two paths which we might take: (1) friendly,  meaning
voluntary noise abatement or (2) legal means such as the arrest of
violators.  The latter would require the identification of the offender
as well as the complainer.  The suggestion  was made that the propeller
is the source of most of the objectionable aircraft noise.  Limiting
propeller speed on takeoff would go a long way toward quieting many
planes.  We might have signs posted at the airport office, as well as at
the end of the runways, recommending this action.

Michael said he agrees with our proposed noise mitigation procedures. 
He suggests notifying consistent offenders and speaking directly with
the pilots whenever possible.  Michael left the meeting at 3 pm.

We then had a long discussion of noise abatement; the conclusion was
acceptance of a  recommendation from Dave that we drop all but the
pilots' actions from the procedure.  We decided, however, to leave the
proposal intact until the Community meeting, so we'd get feedback on it.

Tim asked if we should encourage many pilots to attend the meeting?  We
decided to publicize the meeting through community bulletin boards, the
Mendocino Beacon and the local radio stations.  Dick and Joel took on
the job of getting the notices out.  Dave thought the notice of the
meeting was not enough in advance.  The group consensus, however, was
that we needed to get the meeting happening.

We examined the proposed format of the information to be released to the
public.  It was approved.


Treasurer's Report:

Dick reported that we have $1858 in the account as of Sept. 20th.  

There are seven unfulfilled pledges to date.  More than half have been
received. Thank you letters have not been sent yet to all donors,
because the Federal tax exemption has not yet been received. 

We have our tax exemption from the State.  Federal approval should
follow shortly.


It was noted that we did not have a quorum of the board today.


We had a short discussion of the reimbursement of expenses for
duplication, Etc., as well as future Ad Hoc Committee expenses.  The
expenses of the Secretary and Treasurer were to be included.  All
reimbursements should be subject to review.  We will make this an action
item for member attention.  Dick Ahrens will write a letter which Tim
will duplicate and include with the report of the Community Meeting,
which is to be sent to the members:  this letter will request that
members who are planning to be absent send or give a proxy to Tim
Scully, for use only in their absence. (Explanation: we now have enough
members who reside in locations other than the Little River area so that
getting a quorum to the meetings is difficult, and thus the Board can
take no legal actions.)

We agreed to meet again in four weeks, on November 10, 1996 at 4 PM at
Coast Flyers.

There being no further business to come before the meeting, it was
adjourned at 4:00 pm, on motion duly made and carried.

Joel Bornstein, Secretary